The power of Christ compels you… to get a load of the latest casting announcements for Mike Flanagan’s upcoming The Exorcist movie! Since Scarlett Johansson boarded the cast of modern horror master Flanagan’s 2024-announced Exorcist film (then titled The Exorcist: Deceiver) late last November, there’s been a whole host of exciting casting announcements for Blumhouse and Atomic Monster’s latest attempt to resurrect the iconic possession franchise. Now, per Deadline‘s reporting, John Leguizamo and a truckload of Flanagan regulars including Rahul Kohli, Hamish Linklater, and Kate Siegel have all signed on to face/be possessed by Pazuzu.
In full, the new cohort just announced for Flanagan’s currently untitled chiller features the aforementioned Kohli, Linklater, and Siegel alongside Gil Bellows, Carl Lumbly, Robert Longstreet, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, John Gallagher Jr., Benjamin Pajak, and Carla Gugino. Between them, this band of eleven have popped up variously in Flanagan projects from Oculus through The Haunting Of Hill House and Bly Manor and all the way up to last year’s The Life Of Chuck, building a community of Flanagan players akin to the usual suspects found across the works of Wes Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, and Christopher Nolan to name but a few. These Flanagan familiars will be joined in the secrecy shrouded movie, shooting in New York City, by previously announced cast members Jacobi Jupe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Laurence Fishburne, Sasha Calle, and Diane Lane.
A fresh take and a clean break for the franchise following David Gordon Green’s less-than-warmly received 2023 effort The Exorcist: Believer, Mike Flanagan’s Exorcist movie will be a pure Flanagan original, both written and directed by the man himself. How he finds the time for it all in between his many Stephen King adaptations (Carrie‘s already in the can, and The Mist is well on its way) we’ll never know, but we aren’t complaining. Now all we need is a release date… what a wonderful day for an exorcism that shall be, folks!
